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by ufmace 6y ago
There might be something like a civil war, but it won't look anything at all like the last one. Don't look for two armies marching on fields against each other. Do look for dozens of shadowy groups practicing guerilla warfare agai
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by ufmace 6y ago
It does have a lot of empty space. But I would presume it also has a lot of heavy metal structure to keep that space pressurized to a human-breathable pressure and allow entry and exit. Satellites don't need to keep much under pressure
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by ufmace 6y ago
Interesting post. I don't necessarily agree 100%, but I think it's a useful perspective in addition to the counter-idea that side projects and meetups will get you jobs. It's not every company or set of interviewers, but ther
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by ufmace 6y ago
I do not like this clickbait title. Just tell us what the experiment was. This seems designed to build a narrative about something rather than telling people about an interesting experiment.
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by ufmace 6y ago
If it's all scrapers, why would somebody build a scraper that bothers to click ads? And if you wanted to scrape Reddit, why not use their public API instead?
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by ufmace 6y ago
What I don't get here is - who is doing this? I'm not sure who has the motivation to falsify clicks on Reddit ads. For Google ads, somebody might want to falsify clicks on the ads displayed on their site because they get paid by t
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by ufmace 6y ago
I never liked battery powered tools, because I tend to use them rarely. The battery is almost always dead when I want to use one. Then I have to delay whatever I want to work on to charge one. Assuming that they still hold a charge, which t
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by ufmace 6y ago
He already opened a simpler model. With a piece of condom wrapper, naturally. https://youtu.be/1uEYveSssok
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by ufmace 6y ago
Personally, I don't think that capping costs explicitly is a good idea, because it doesn't carry enough information about what to do when you hit that cap. Not even considering something like AWS with a bazillion types of services
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by ufmace 6y ago
Very interesting that this feature is often demanded in tones of righteous outrage on posts about autoscaling cloud services, yet when actually implemented, nobody has actually set it up.
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by ufmace 6y ago
It uses standard transport encryption for all communication. End to End encryption is available for direct messages. It isn't used for groups, where real E2E is very difficult and complex and AFAIK nobody does it well, and channels, wh
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by ufmace 6y ago
Localized outage? Everything's working fine for me, has been all day.
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by ufmace 6y ago
I see them as price segmentation on free time. If you have enough free time to keep track of the whole loyalty points system and game frequent flyer points, you can save a few bucks. If you'd rather not bother, you'll spend a litt
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by ufmace 6y ago
You should be able to de-authorize it from any working Google login on another device - the security page shows all of your other Google sessions, and you can kill any of them. It even nags you to kill ones that haven't been used in ov
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by ufmace 6y ago
"Should" is a dubious word to use here. That's what the law is there, and what you or I think "should" happen isn't relevant.
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by ufmace 6y ago
In my experience, most of the off the shelf systems for stuff like this doesn't work very well. Even when it does, it's not extensible. I could see it being appealing to have a more customizable in-house system, at least when you
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by ufmace 6y ago
It would be hilariously ironic if this turned out to be /u/Nextgrid's most highly upvoted post
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by ufmace 6y ago
I think he did say - it's one thing to do it once. It gets really annoying when apps do it over and over again.
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by ufmace 6y ago
I don't know if I entirely agree with this, but I do think that at the very least Rust is much better for this sort of development then some would have you think. It's strict, yes, but most of that strictness helps with eliminatin
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by ufmace 6y ago
It was an oddly contemptuous take IMO. Like what's the beef with having a single frying pan? If you really don't cook anything at all, why do you have even one? Or there's no reason you couldn't cook 3 meals a day in a s
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by ufmace 6y ago
I'm not saying to not write any micro-tests at all, just that most of them are not needed - use your judgement of course. Don't bother writing tests for things that your type system and compiler already protect you from. I do find
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by ufmace 6y ago
I think the types of testing that are useful are critically dependent on the language we're talking about. If you're working with a dynamic language like Ruby, Python, Javascript, then it's more valuable to have micro-tests o
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by ufmace 6y ago
Wow, under 8% peak CPU usage. Are you serving static files?
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by ufmace 6y ago
Absolutely this. I was a Nokia/Symbian fan back when it actually was the industry best. The real problem was that iPhone and Android came around and started executing like 100x faster than Symbian ever did. Nokia was too used to workin
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by ufmace 6y ago
Beside the point of media narratives, I think it tends to depend on the type of work being done. IMO, it's a lot easier to effectively collaborate remotely on most types of software, particularly cloud/web software. It's much
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by ufmace 6y ago
I think for a while, Google sort of hoped to turn Chrome extensions into something like actual apps. They seemed to support stuff like making desktop icons for them, opening them in windows that seemed to be independent from Chrome, making
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by ufmace 6y ago
Reading all of these comments, I'm really glad I have a dumb gas stove with no special electronics, just an actual mechanical gas valve. Turn knob -> more gas -> bigger fire -> more heat into pot, and that's all there is
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by ufmace 6y ago
Characterizing an auto-update system as a RCE for the product's developers is an absurd exaggeration IMO. Most of the security world seems to consider automatic updates to be a good thing so that actual vulnerabilities get fixed rapidl
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by ufmace 6y ago
Well the server for this page seems to be dead. I wonder what language it's written in? ;)
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by ufmace 6y ago
Did they not just lay off most of the engineers who had built all of that stuff?

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